{"id":53,"date":"2006-03-02T07:05:25","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2006-03-02T07:05:25","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T12:05:25","slug":"torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/02\/torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a big conference here a couple of months ago about how terrible torture is. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if Abu Graibh and Guantanamo came up, if the posters promoting it are any clue. I wonder, though, if anything came up about torture in Iraq before the war. Consider this <a href=\"http:\/\/iraqthemodel.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/trial-just-got-interesting.html\">report about the trial<\/a> of Saddam Hussein:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The documents revealed some unbelievably terrifying facts about the Dujail massacre; can you imagine that when orders were given to execute the 148 &#8220;convicts&#8221; the prison authorities executed only 96 of them. Why? Because the remaining 48 &#8220;convicts&#8221; had already passed away during &#8220;interrogation&#8221;!! What kind of interrogation was that killed one third of the suspects?!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How many Torture seminars were there here protesting Torture in Iraq between 1979 and 2003? (Kudus to <a href=\"http:\/\/fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com\/\">Belmont Club<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: even worse things at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeltotten.com\/archives\/001068.html\">Michael J. Totten&#8217;s site<\/a> (not especially graphic).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a big conference here a couple of months ago about how terrible torture is. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if Abu Graibh and Guantanamo came up, if the posters promoting it are any clue. I wonder, though, if anything came up about torture in Iraq before the war. Consider this report about the trial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saRqpr-torture","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}